Apache PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. Apache PDFBox also includes several command line utilities. Apache PDFBox is published under the Apache License v2.0
The PDF Renderer is just what the name implies: an open source, all Java library which renders PDF documents to the screen using Java2D. Typically this means drawing into a Swing panel, but it could also draw to other Graphics2D implementations. We hope you will come up with cool things to do with it that we never thought of.
PDF is one of the core file formats of the Internet, so it is very important for Java programmers to be able to both read and write PDFs. Great open source libraries like iText have long handled the writing half, but until now there has not been a good way to read PDFs using open source Java libraries. It could be used to draw on top of PDFs, share them over a network, convert PDFs to PNG images, or maybe even project PDFs into a 3D scene.
Overview
jPod Renderer is is the long awaited rendering implementation for AWT and SWT.
Based on the successful jPod library, this one adds a platform abstraction which allows for
* pluggable PDF image conversion from and to AWT and SWT
* pluggable PDF font handling
* platform independent PDF rendering with adapterf for AWT and SWT
This library is commercial strength and used in products like
* CABAReT Stage (free for personal use)
* Sign Live!
* PDF/A Live!
PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. This project allows creation of new PDF documents, manipulation of existing documents and the ability to extract content from documents. PDFBox also includes several command line utilities.
Features
* PDF to text extraction
* Merge PDF Documents
* PDF Document Encryption/Decryption
* Lucene Search Engine Integration
* Fill in form data FDF and XFDF
* Create a PDF from a text file
* Create images from PDF pages
* Print a PDF